1784 in art

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Works

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784, Louvre, Paris

• Jacques-Louis David – painting Oath of the Horatii

See also: Category:1784 paintings

Births

• January 21 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter (d. 1849)
• February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (d. 1864)
• June 4 – François Rude, French sculptor (d. 1855)
• September 23 – Peter von Cornelius, German painter (d. 1867)
• October – Sarah Biffen, disabled painter (d. 1850)
• December 26 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue (d. 1832)
• date unknown – John Cox Dillman Engleheart, miniature painter (d. 1862)

Deaths

• May 29 – George Barret, Sr., Irish landscape artist best known for his portraits of the British countryside (b. 1730)
• July 15 – Johann Baptist Straub, German Rococo sculptor (b. 1704)
• August 10 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait-painter (b. 1713)
• August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, portrait painter (b. 1718)
• September 15 – Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter (b. 1735)
• October 29 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutisti) (b. 1709)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter (b. 1724)
  • Andrea Casali – Italian painter of the Rococo period (b. 1705)
  • Giuseppe Bottani – Italian painter (b. 1717)